The Bounty Programme was inspired by a similar mechanism in MoinMoin Wiki. The idea is to encourage the development of new features and plugins by funding it via bounties.
A bounty is meant as a promise to pay a fixed amount of money for the implementation of a certain feature, with the hopes that other interested parties join and “chip in”, thus increasing the overall amount to a feasible sum.
In retrospective, bounties rarely ever work, for several reasons:
Instead of opening a bounty you should first see if one of the following other options aren't a better fit:
If you still think a bounty is the right way to attract developers to your idea, please create a new page in the bounties namespace and link it under open bounties.
A bounty is valid as long as there is at least one non-timed-out funding offer for it. If a bounty gets invalid, it will be removed.
As long as the bounty is not taken, you can take back or change your funding offer at any time.
Be sure to announce your bounty wherever you can if you want to attract others to chip in. A forum post is a good start.
If you want to take one of the offered bounties, contact the people listed on the bounty page to negotiate the details. This may include clarifying the scope of work and the payment details.
Keep in mind that all DokuWiki code, including code relying on DokuWiki features has to be licensed under GNU General Public License version 2 when distributed.